Champe Counseling - October #2
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JCHS Counseling Team
Christi Campbell, Director of Counseling
Danielle Coniglio, School Counselor A-Ch
Andrew Tafaro, School Counselor Ci-Ham
Vanessa Keller, School Counselor Han-Le
Derek Forster, School Counselor Li-Pa
Maria Porto, School Counselor Pe-Sk
Sue Pangman, School Counselor Sl-Z
Natasha Jeter, Career Center Assistant
Rita Giampaoli, Administrative Assistant
Andrea Rizzoni, Administrative Assistant
Brian Sorg, School Psychologist
Jennifer McLemore, School Social Worker
Website: https://www.lcps.org/domain/11643
Location: 41535 Sacred Mountain Street, Aldie, VA, United States
Phone: 703-722-2687
Twitter: @JCHSCounseling
CHARACTER CHALLENGE
Look around you. There are everyday heroes in your midst. You'll recognize them not by their capes, but by their courage. They stand out from the crowd because they stand up for the downtrodden. You want to know a secret? You can become an everyday hero too. Be a friend to the kid who always gets picked on. Put an end to the gossip at your lunch table. Choose not to do the the thing you know is wrong. In short, the first step to being someone's everyday hero is to take a stand. Will you?
OCTOBER
22 - Student Holiday - County-wide Staff Development Day
24 - UNITY DAY - unite against bullying and wear orange!
25 - Fall job fair at Freedom HS, 7:00pm
27 - ACT at JCHS
30 - College Athlete Recruiting Seminar at Champe, 7:30pm
31 - Counselor deadline for November 15 college applications
31 - Battle of the Burritos at Moe's - LET's BEAT FREEDOM!
NOVEMBER
1 - FAFSA Workshop at Freedom HS
5 - Job for a Day
5-6 - Student Holiday
5 - Champe Check-In, 8:30-10:30am
7 - College Funding Coach - Little Known Secrets of Paying for College, 7:00pm
9 - NOVA Pathways applications due
13 - Counselor deadline for December 1 college applications
Virginia Governor's School
Please check out our website for the application and all the information you need to apply!
Governor's School Info Night
Governor's School Visual & Performing Arts
VSGS Summer Residential Program
Seal of Biliteracy/Credit Through Testing
Registration for the fall session of Credit Through Testing (CTT) is now open! The testing window is open now through October 26. Students who register after October 26 will not be able to use the CTT as evidence for their Seal of Biliteracy.
Loudoun County Public Schools is pleased to offer our students the opportunity to earn the Virginia Department of Education's Seal of Biliteracy and language credit through testing. Students who are able to speak, understand, read, and write another language besides English may be eligible to earn the diploma seal of biliteracy and two high school credits in that language. Please see the JCHS Seal of Biliteracy website for more information.
One way to qualify for the Seal of Biliteracy through LCPS is with our Credit Through Testing. Credit Through Testing is free to all Loudoun County Public School students and takes place in November. If you would like to participate in the fall Credit Through Testing window, please fill out the Google Form on the website. Students are responsible for their own transportation to the testing locations.
Please see the website below for more information. If you have any additional questions, please contact your world language teacher.
https://sites.google.com/lcps.org/jchs-seal-of-biliteracy/home
Job For A Day
The Loudoun School-Business Partnership will be sponsoring the Job-for-a-Day Program for high school juniors and seniors on Monday, November 5, 2018. There is a second date only for those students placed at Inova Loudoun Hospital: Wednesday, November 20, 2017. Students who participate in the program will spend one day with a business in the community that is involved in a career in which the student is interested.
The goals of this program are:
- Allow students to explore fields in which they have an interest or aptitude.
- Offer students exposure to career clusters about which they have not previously known.
- Strengthen students awareness of business, industry, and business enterprises within the community.
- Heighten students decision-making processes related to life skills and career choices.
- Provide students with hands-on experiences with people, places, and things not always available in the classroom or school environment.
- Help students learn about job/career opportunities within the local area.
There are a fixed number of placements available in each career choice, so apply early to secure a placement. You also must submit a copy of your resume. These forms are the all-important first impression that the placement committee and business partnership sponsor have of you. You will want to make a good first impression.
You are responsible for your own transportation. If this presents a major problem or if you have any questions, please contact Mrs. Jeter in the Career Center.
Apply for Job-For-A-Day: https://webinter.lcps.org/JobForADay/.
Students have 15 minutes to complete their registration in order to keep the job they want. Be sure to have your resume ready to upload.
TESTING NEWS
ACT and SAT Test Dates
ACT
Test date - December 8, register by November 2
FREE ACT STUDY GUIDE: https://www.mometrix.com/academy/act-study-guide/
SAT
Test date - November 3, register by October 5
Test date - December 1, register by November 2
NOVA
Pathways
Due Nov 9
COLLEGE VISITS TO JOHN CHAMPE
- Go to LCPS GO
- Find Naviance Student
- Click on Colleges (Home)
- Scroll down to College Visits; Click "Show More"
- Scroll through list of College Visits; Register for preferred colleges.
Students may print confirmation of registration or show a screenshot to the teacher as a pass out of class. It is always to the teacher's discretion to not allow a student to leave if their is an assessment on class or if the student has abused the school pass system.
The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards program is the United States’ largest youth recognition program based exclusively on volunteer community service. Applications are now open for 2019 awards. Students must submit their completed applications and signed student/parent agreements to Counseling for certification by November 6, 2018. See https://spirit.prudential.com/.
Loudoun Elks Lodge #2406 accomplishes their charitable works through helping the community and local families in need. Our signature effort for this goal is the valuable student scholarship program.We believe this program is the avenue for our community students, near the top of their class, active in their schools and communities and recognized as leaders by their peers, to succeed and contribute to their future.Our Elks outreach to you is to provide this opportunity for you to submit a competitive scholarship form. Please provide your scholarship forms by November 15th, 2018. We will begin the review process at the local lodge level. Please go to the Elks website for the scholarship form and more information.
https://www.elks.org/scholars/scholarships/mvs.cfm
Sigma Mu Mu Chapter of the Omega Psi Phy Fraternity is offering a scholarship of $500 to a graduating senior from Loudoun County who is planning on attending college. Applicants are required to submit a 700-750 word essay (double-spaced and in Word form) on the topic: How has social media impacted today’s youth, and what influence does it have on their future? Online submission is preferred but the sponsor will accept proper applications by email or mail. Application and information can be found at: http://loudouncountyques.org/~loudoun/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=frm_forms_preview&form=dcy39. Deadline: October 19, 2018. Please be aware that the winner of this scholarship may be eligible for an Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. International High School Essay Contest Scholarships which is $5,000 for 1st, $3,000 for 2nd, $2,000 for 3rd, or $1,000 for 4th.
The 2018-2019 Lee-Jackson Educational Foundation Scholarship Program is now available for Virginia public, private, and home high school juniors and seniors. $42,000 in college scholarships are available for participating students this year.
Eighteen scholarships will be awarded to Virginia high school juniors and seniors submitting outstanding original, analytical essays on any aspect, positive or negative, of the career, character, or legacy of General Robert E. Lee and/or General "Stonewall" Jackson.
Scholarship funding is available as follows:
- The Foundation will award one $2,000 scholarship and one $1,000 scholarship to students whose essays are judged to be the first place and second place winners in each of Virginia’s eight public high school regions.
- First place winners from each public school region and the first place winner from the home/private school sector will be judged together as a group by a panel appointed by the L-JEF board to determine the first, second, and third place winners overall from the Commonwealth of Virginia. Bonus scholarships of $10,000, $4,000, and $1,000 will be awarded to these three students. The third place winner overall in Virginia will receive a total award of $3,000, the second place winner will receive a total of $6,000, and the first place winner in the Commonwealth of Virginia will receive a total award of $12,000.
All application instructions, selection procedures, deadlines, and reporting forms are located on the Lee-Jackson Educational Foundation website at http://www.lee-jackson.org/.
The deadline for students to submit applications and essays to their high school principals (parent or guardian for homeschool students) is February 1, 2019.
Winners will be announced May 15, 2019.
Loudoun Retired Educators Association Education Scholarship. This organization is offering four, $1,000 scholarships to applicants that are Loudoun County graduating seniors interested in a career in public education. The applicant must include extracurricular activities, school honors, and community service and activities. An essay of two hundred words, (no more than one page) on Why I have Chosen Teaching in Public Education as a Career is required. Two letters of recommendation, one from a teacher is required. Applicants must have a grade point average of 2.5 or better and include a transcript with the application package. Deadline for this application is April 3, 2018 to be submitted to the Career Center Assistant at the high school, who will in turn forward on to District School Counseling Office.
WANT TO LEARN HOW TO SEND YOUR KIDS TO COLLEGE WITHOUT GOING BROKE?
The cost of a college education is higher than ever. How will you afford this expense? What if your children attend elite or out-of-state schools? What if they don’t graduate in four years? The costs can be monumental. This workshop will teach you how to send your children to the college of their dreams without bankrupting your retirement nest egg. You’ll discover strategies that may enable to you to qualify for financial aid, sources for scholarships, and strategies for maximizing your wealth and minimizing your tax exposure, giving you greater cash flow for funding a college education. Please join John Champe HS in hosting The College Funding Coach® on November 7 @ 7:00 pm -9:00 pm. This is information you can’t afford to miss!
To RSVP please: Click here or visit our website, www.thecollegefundingcoach.org and look for upcoming classes in your area.
10 Mental Health Tips To Share With Your High School Senior
Have you ever talked with your high school senior about mental health? In my experience, parents may discuss majors and housing, not major depression and anxiety. However, I encourage parents to talk about these issues because rates of mental health problems continue to soar on college campuses. According to the recently posted results of the American College Health Association fall 2017 survey, one of three college students have been diagnosed with or treated for a mental health disorder in the last year, one of five for anxiety and one of six for depression. One of eight college students seriously considered suicide. Since 2011, rates of anxiety have doubled and rates of depression have risen by fifty percent.
By talking about mental health, parents can reduce stigma and let children know it is okay to pursue treatment. The earlier your college student seeks help for a mental health problem, the more quickly he or she will recover. As a psychiatrist providing clinical care to college students for over twenty years, I have seen too many young adults delay seeking treatment because they feel they have some kind of moral weakness rather than a biological and psychological condition that can be treated with lifestyle changes, therapy, and if needed, medication.
Here is what I recommend every parent tell their high school senior about mental health before they go to college.
- Pressures - I am very proud of you as you prepare for your college journey and I know you will do a great job. I also want you to know that college students today can feel a great deal of academic, social, and financial pressure. If the pressure ever gets overwhelming, you can call me anytime, day or night.
- Problems - If there is a problem you feel uncomfortable talking about with me, don’t hesitate to call another family member. I won’t be insulted – I just want you to get help. I support you talking with a therapist at the campus counseling center if you need another sounding board.
- Academics - I want you to do well in school, but not by sacrificing your health in the process. Regular sleep, exercise, and a healthy diet are necessary for good mental and physical health. I understand there might be times, like during midterms and finals, that you sleep less, but this should not happen on a regular basis. If you find you don’t have time for good self-care, meet with a wellness or success coach on campus who can teach you how to manage your time better. You could also speak with your academic advisor about taking a more balanced course load.
- Social connections - Meeting people and making friends can be more challenging in this age of social media when people might be communicating online rather than face to face. Join one or two clubs, talk with people in classes, go to your professor’s office hours, and make at least one or two good friends. Having strong social connections can improve your mental health, physical health, and GPA.
- Anxiety - Anxiety is the number one mental health problem on campus. It’s normal to feel anxious about exams and meeting new people, but if your anxiety is so high that it is hard to sleep and concentrate, your heart sometimes races, you feel like it’s hard to catch your breath, and your stomach is always upset, I want you to talk with a therapist. If therapy does not reduce your anxiety, you can also meet with a psychiatrist, who may prescribe medication. Participate in activities to lower your anxiety like yoga, exercise, and meditation.
- Depression - Sometimes students can feel sad and homesick during their first days of college. But if the sadness never leaves, it becomes harder to get to class, you stop spending time with friends, or you feel there is no hope that things will get better, I want you to call me and also see a therapist and/or psychiatrist. Depression is highly treatable.
- Alcohol - I know most college students drink alcohol, and I would prefer you didn’t drink. But if you do drink, I want you to be safe. Avoid binge drinking - four or more drinks for a woman and five or more for a man in one sitting. Heavy drinking in college is associated with worse academic performance, and of even more concern, can contribute to physical assault, sexual assault, injury, and death.
- Drugs - Avoid drugs in college. There is a great deal of controversy about risks and benefits of marijuana, but until there are more studies, I would prefer you not use it. Most marijuana now has a much higher THC content than it did thirty years ago, potentially causing more problems with anxiety and paranoia. Studies show regular marijuana use decreases motivation and GPAs in college students. As for other drugs on campus - cocaine, opioids, and LSD - these drugs put your life at risk and I never want you to try them.
- Psychosis – While psychotic experiences occur far less frequently than anxiety and depression in the college years, there can be an increase in these experiences during young adulthood. Psychosis means you have perceptual disturbances, like believing things that may not be real or hearing voices that are not there. If this happens, I don’t want you to be scared. But I do want you to let me know and also speak with a mental health professional to see if this is a temporary experience or a long-term mental health problem requiring treatment.
- Resilience – During your college journey, you will experience many highs and a few lows. With your inner strength and the strength of the many people you connect with, I know you will emerge with great knowledge, courage, and creativity.
THINGS THAT HAVE COME ACROSS OUR DESK
Loudoun Youth Advisory Council
Loudoun County Youth Advisory Council (YAC) is a year round youth-development and leadership program. We have representatives from each of the public high schools, private high schools ad the home-schooled community in Loudoun County. We are a part of the Parks and Rec branch.
YAC is a great opportunity for students to get more involved in their community and looks amazing on college applications. We are looking for underclassmen to join YAC as most of us are graduating this school year. For more information you can check out our website
To join YAC, the application is on the website.
Virginia Space Coast Scholars
Virginia Aerospace Science and Technology Scholars
Virginia Earth System Science Scholars
Loudoun Youth
Step Up Loudoun Youth Competition
Registration for Step Up Loudoun Youth Competition will open October 9 through December 21, 2018. Additional information about SULYC and the link for the application are found on our website: http://www.loudounyouth.org/programs-2/the-step-up-loudoun-youth-competition/.
#MOESBURRITOBATTLE FHS vs JCHS
POSITIVE QUOTES FOR LIFE
Volunteer Opportunities are posted online at https://www.lcps.org/Page/109833.
NEW - use your lcps google account to log-in
Important Updates to the Knights Give Back Volunteer Program!
- Students can now log in their volunteer hours on LCPS Go. Look for the volunteer icon.
- Once students log in their volunteer hours they will receive an email confirmation of hours logged in. This is a good time to check the accuracy of your hours!
- All student volunteer hours will be updated at the end of each quarter. If you are unsure of your cumulative hours, please contact Ms. Rizzoni at andrea.rizzoni@lcps.org
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